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Hi,

When I connect a USB Flash drive to a WinXP machine on the network. It consistantly wants to use a drive letter (E) which is already mapped to a network share. Instead of picking another free drive letter.

On my computer the drive letters are as follows:
Drive partitions are C: & D:
Network shares mapped on E:

Now I can change the letter for the USB drive but that has be done for each different USB drive used on a computer. If I disconnect the network share from E:, the USB Flash drive is happily available on the E: drive letter.

I can't change the network shares as it would break all the other things on my computer as E are used by other programs, logon scripts etc.

Why does WinXP insist on the network share E instead of picking another free letter ?

It seems like XP ignores the logical drives (network drives) as a valid drive letter, something to do with it weird drive assignment mechanism.

Another one of XP's.... Bugs.... I mean feature ???

Appreciate any help or info on how to sort this out.

regards